Engineering Manager (Application & Check Out)

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform focused on modernizing the life insurance industry. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the App & Checkout team, responsible for enhancing the consumer-facing application and purchase experience while collaborating with various stakeholders to drive product initiatives and engineering improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with other engineering teams, product, design, TPM, and external stakeholders to introduce new customer-facing platform features and support/evolve existing products
• Work with a distributed team of engineers–mentoring and driving engineering best practices
• Assist in setting the roadmap for team deliverables in a dynamic environment
• Drive delivery of high-quality product initiatives and engineering improvements
• Work with the team to identify, scope, and schedule improvements to the frontend platform
• Communicate effectively, excelling at explaining complex systems and requirements to non-technical cross-functional partners
• Be very technical and willing to participate in system design, code reviews, incident investigations, and directly contribute code towards team initiatives
• Be data-driven in their engineering management practices, fostering continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years experience developing software, with at least 1 year of prior management experience
• Proficient across the full stack — frontend (React, Remix/Next.js), backend services (GoLang and/or Python), APIs, and databases
• Deep understanding of the entire software development lifecycle, including feature inception, GenAI developer tooling, continuous delivery, and release strategies
• Ability to track key metrics and consistently meet established Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Ability to understand complex technical problems and identify areas of risk
• Ability to ‘go deep' technically when necessary. You should be able to contribute changes to the team's codebases at any time
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Proven track record of building and retaining high-performing teams
• Strategic Orchestration of AI-Augmented Engineering: Drives the adoption of AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) across frontend and backend domains to accelerate the delivery of modular, full-stack features. Establishes cross-stack standards for AI-generated code—from API design to UI components—ensuring that automated testing and documentation workflows reduce technical debt. Mentors engineers on leveraging GenAI to bridge domain gaps, enabling more fluid collaboration between frontend and backend contributors while maintaining high architectural integrity